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I was wondering if someone could help me, I am a first year student nurse and have been asked to ask an RN about intuition and how it affects their practice. Any response would be great :)

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When you know to put in that extra check on a patient but clinical obs say they are ok. You have a feeling about them.

It not scentific but it saves lives

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Always follow your instinct and listen to that little voice. If something "just doesn't seem right", most of the time it isn't.

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Thanks so much for your replies.

:)

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There was a really good article about intuition and health care in Reader's Digest about six to eight months ago. The article was about a study that was done to investigate this topic and the findings were basically that intuition was not really intuition but past experiences/past memories of similar situations in the back of your mind triggering you to do that extra check, run that extra test, etc. You might want to check that out.

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Thanks for that

:)

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